[CMake] Need help with GLOB expression
Bill Hoffman
bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Sun Mar 29 23:02:20 EDT 2009
Philip Lowman wrote:
> I'll put in the feature request for {} and at some point in the
> future it can be addressed.
>
> Can someone point me to a definition of what glob is supposed to
> have in it? It seems to vary from php glob, perl glob, various
> different shell globs, etc. I can not seem to find a definitive
> answer as to what a glob function is supposed to do, other than it
> is something shy of a regular expression. The CMake one seems to do
> about the same as a bash shell as far as I can tell.
>
>
> Here is bash's glob support
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/globbingref.html
>
> MS-Dos and Windows are limited to '*' and '?'
>
> Not sure about everyone else. If CMake can support all of what Bash
> supports that probably would be above and beyond the call of duty.
>
So, I see no mention of {} in bash?
-Bill
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